Considering a Qt 5.6 dependency for plasma-workspace

Martin Graesslin mgraesslin at kde.org
Fri Mar 25 15:25:54 UTC 2016


On Thursday, March 24, 2016 5:31:21 PM CET Aleix Pol wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to suggest a Qt 5.6 dependency for plasma-workspace master
> (and maybe other repositories too).
> 
> My personal interest is mostly because of the patch that drops KScreen
> dependency in plasmashell [1], but I still think it makes sense on
> other areas and it's unlikely that plasma 5.7 is going to ever be run
> under Qt 5.5 anyway (in fact, Plasma 5.6 won't be run under Qt 5.5
> either on most distributions, interestingly).

As long as there is no Qt 5.6 bug fix release which doesn't block kded on 
startup I suggest that we don't depend on Qt 5.6. We currently know it's 
broken and completely unusable for us.

Let's wait for the bug fix release and then depend on 5.6.1.

Cheers
Martin
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